Photographs, Plate 1

Abram Waterbury, L. Ron Hubbard's great-grandfather, playing the fiddle
carved with a negro's head that became part of the family legend.
(page 8)

Ron's grandfather was supposed to have owned a quarter of the state of
Montana. Here he is seen as he really was, a struggling veterinarian, pictured
with his wife and their first child (Ron's mother) at Tilden, Nebraska, around
the late 1880s.
(page 9)